Suzanne Raphaelle Lagneau

Flowers and Butterflies: French art nouveau floral still life oil painting

circa 1920

A charming 19th Century painting of Anemone flowers in a wicker basket. It has a warm, seasonal and festive feel. I love the great simplicity and sincerity it exudes. French in origi...

Here is a painting that will lift you - one feels happy every time one looks at it. It is such a lovely, unusual twist to the theme of the floral still life: here we have flowers, not in a vase, but attached to a wooden front door. I wonder if the artist did this with actual flowers, perhaps for a sweetheart, and then decided to paint the scene? At any rate: who wouldn't want to come home to find a large bunch of glorious lilac as they come home? The artist is Emile Baudoux (1850 -1929), who studied with Humbert and Cabanel. Paris-born, he liked to work in Normandy, where he had his studio. He exhibited his work at the "Salon des Artistes Français" until 1927, where he obtained a gold medal in 1910. The important oil on canvas presented here, dating from 1901, may have been shown at the Salon, as it bears an exhibition number "30" at the upper right of the canvas. Measuring 81 x 60 cm, the overall size including its original large oak frame...

A remarkable work by Charles Nicolas Etienne Mayre, an academic painter born in Choisy le Roi near Paris in 1819. He studied with the masters Michel-Martin Drolling and Leon Cogniet...

An exuberant impressionist floral still life by Marie Lucie Nessi-Valtat (1910-1992). Marie Lucie studied with André Lhote, at the Ecole des Beaux art and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière from the age of 18. She was part of the circle of Montparnasse artists Léonard Foujita, Jean Hélion, Moïse Kisling. In 1932 Marie Lucie Nessi married Jean Valtat, the son of Post Impressionist master Louis Valtat, whose work influenced on his daughter-in-law's art. After acclaimed one man shows in renowned European galleries galleries such as the Parisian Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Marie Lucie Nessi-Valtat signed a contract of exclusivity with Wally Findlay Galleries...

A large and elegant still life with grapes and pears on a table which also features a pristine white bowl and a candle stick. Painted with simplicity, clarity of structure, and restrained emotion, this is a superb modernist work by Jean Chauffrey (1911-) dating from circa 1950. At the time, Chauffrey had a contract with mythical Paris art dealers...

A major, mid century modern work by French artist Claude Dechezelle (1928-2003). Having studied with the art deco painter and designer Jean Dupas at ...

Édouard GELHAY (Braine, 1856 - Paris, 1939) Game lost Oil on panel enlarged by two centimeters on the right side Signed lower left. Dedicated top right to Princess Maria JABLONOWSK...

Pierre Coquet - Still life with a pewter pitcher Reference number F445 Framed with a natural oak floated frame 50 x 73 x 2 cm (55 x 78 x 3,5 cm frame included) This work is painted w...

Pierre Coquet - Still life with cherries Reference number F373 The painting is not framed but it could be with a painted black oak floater fra...

Composition with jugs, oil painting by Pierre Coquet Reference number F486 Framed with a natural oak floated frame 43 x 72 x 2 cm (48 x 77 x 3,5 cm frame included) This work is paint...

Reference number F371 This work is painted with oil on a paper that is mounted on a canvas and placed in a made to measure wood strectcher. It is signed in the bottom left. The paint...

Still life with plums, oil painting by Pierre Coquet Reference number F374 The painting is not framed but it could be with a natural oak floated frame (see how it would look like on ...